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| Court in Volgograd did not find extremism in the song "About Islam" |
| 2022-08-17 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] The court dismissed the lawsuit filed by the deputy prosecutor of the Volgograd region, who asked to recognize the song "About Islam" as extremist. The authorship and performance of the song is attributed on the Internet to the well-known group Casta, but the director of the group denied the involvement of the musical group in the song. As the "Caucasian Knot" has reported, it is not the first time that the courts in Volgograd rule in favor of song performers. On February 17, the Volgograd Regional Court granted the defense's appeal against the decision of the Dzerzhinsky District Court to recognize the song "Kill Beggars!" by the Pornofilmy group as extremist, and the case will be returned to the court of first instance. The Dzerzhinsky District Court of Volgograd found no signs of extremism in the song "About Islam" and dismissed the corresponding administrative claim, the joint press service of the courts of the Volgograd region reported today. The deputy prosecutor of the Volgograd region demanded that the song be recognized as extremist and that it be banned from distribution in Russia, the case was considered on August 15, the press service said. "It was not possible to establish the authorship of the musical composition "About Islam" during the consideration of the administrative case, since in the information and telecommunications network" Internet "its performance is attributed to a well-known group that has nothing to do with the performance of this song," the court noted. The claim of the deputy prosecutor of the Volgograd region was registered in court on April 13, the first hearing in the case took place on May 12, follows from the court file. The Ministry of Justice of Russia, as well as the department of the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications for the Volgograd Region and the Republic of Kalmykia, are indicated as interested parties in the court card. The text of the song "Pro Islam" and its performance are attributed to the popular Russian group "Kasta", V1 indicated today. At the same time, the director of the group, Ruslan Munnibaev, "categorically denied" the involvement of the musical group in this song. “This is not a Casta song, the group has never performed it ... There are several more Casta songs that are circulating on the Web, which in fact are not our songs. The authors of these songs are unknown, they released this song, indicating the Casta group. We do not know the real names of the authors and are not interested. The court also turned to us, we told them the same thing, that this is not our song," Munnibaev said.  Recall that in 2010, more than 30 songs by the bard Timur Mutsuraev were recognized as extremist and included in the federal list of materials prohibited for distribution. He performed songs in Russian about the war in Chechnya, and later religious motifs and calls for jihad appeared in his work. On December 30, 2021, it became known that the court fined Tugan Kadykoev, a native of Kabardino-Balkaria, two thousand rubles for posting a banned song by Mutsuraev on the VKontakte social network. But Russian courts fine not only for the performance of banned songs by Mutsuraev. On December 5, 2021, Adam Saiev, a resident of Chechnya, was fined 1,000 rubles for posting a song by a Chechen bard on the social network VKontakte, which is not on the list of extremist materials. According to experts,added to the atmosphere of lawlessness  in Chechnya. |
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